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William Hurt is perfectly cast as an arrogant surgeon who treats patients like interchangeable cogs in the machinery of his medical practice. Then he is diagnosed with throat cancer and, as the title of the memoir on which it is based tells us, he gets a taste of his own medicine. The subplot involves the solidarity between doctors, which is shattered when the newly conscious physician discovers that one of his partners (Mandy Patinkin) is trying to cover up a case of malpractice. Hurt is solid, as is Wendy Crewson as the doctor who treats him and Elizabeth Perkins as a fellow cancer patient. Interestingly, Hurt's fellow actors Patinkin, Adam Arkin, and Christine Lahti all wound up playing doctors on TV's Chicago Hope. --Marshall Fine
Excellent acting and storyline ... the story of modern day - compassionate - medicine.
The Doctor
This is a very, very good movie. It really shows a doctor what a patients life is really all about. This should a movie that all interns watch before coming a full fledge doctor. Maybe than there would be that compassion between doctor and patient that sometimes is lacking. Great acting, great movie. Highly reccomended!
I Actually Give a 4.5 Star
A doctor experiences a shift of his role from an arrogant doctor to a helpless patient due to his unexpected illness, and his psychology is expressed very well in the form of movie.
The view expressed in this film is a serious problem in the United States as medical practice is run as a business not as an act of helping humans. A drastic change must be made in order to improve the medical community, and the current situation is far from ideal.
I cerebrate the courage for this movie to impose the idea and hope it had helped to some extent to improve the medical system.
Deservedly hailed as one of the best films of 2001, Wit makes it clear why top-ranking talents seek refuge in the quality programming of HBO. Unhindered by box-office pressures, director Mike Nichols and Emma Thompson turn the most unglamorous topic--the physical and psychological ravages of cancer--into an exquisite contemplation of life, learning, and tenacious, richly expressed humanity. In adapting Margaret Edson's compassionate, Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Nichols and Thompson open up the one-room setting with a superb supporting cast. But their focus remains on the hospital experience of Vivian (Thompson), a fiercely demanding professor of English literature whose academic specialty--the metaphysical poetry of John Donne--is the armor she wears against the cruel indignities... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Emma Thompson Director(s): Mike Nichols DVD Release Date: Released the 11 September 2001 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Get shot in the head and become a better person. This 1991 Mike Nichols (Wolf) film stars Harrison Ford as a big-shot cold-hearted lawyer who gets a bullet in his brain during a holdup. The film de-emphasizes the traumas of recovery to focus on the title character's personality change after the fact. The canny Ford gets to work from his full, familiar palette of arrogance to boyishness, and even builds Henry from top to bottom after the wounded fellow awakens with no memory. But this is a slow and unremarkable film from Nichols, its sentimentality eclipsing all else, most of all profound insight. --Tom KeoghMore Info about this DVD Actor(s): Harrison Ford - Annette Bening Director(s): Mike Nichols DVD Release Date: Released the 09 September 2003 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Patch Adams raises two schools of thought: There are those who are inspired by the true story of a troubled man who finds happiness in helping others--a man set on changing the world and who may well accomplish the task. And then there are those who feel manipulated by this feel-good story, who want to smack the young medical student every time he begins his silly antics.
Staving off suicidal thoughts, Hunter Adams commits himself into a psychiatric ward, where he not only garners the nickname "Patch," but learns the joy in helping others. To this end, he decides to go to medical school, where he clashes with the staid conventions of the establishment as he attempts to inject humor and humanity into his treatment of the patients ("We need to start treating the patient as well... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Robin Williams Director(s): Tom Shadyac DVD Release Date: Released the 22 June 1999 Usually ships in 24 hours
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This warmhearted TV offering based on Mitch Albom's nonfiction bestseller of the same name dives right into the action, with Morrie (Jack Lemmon) collapsing within the first three minutes. Then it's cut to Mitch's hectic life as a sports columnist cum television host and long-term, often long-distance boyfriend. But this Mick Jackson-directed film slows considerably after the introductions as former student Mitch (Hank Azaria) learns his beloved professor is dying of ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease). He reconnects with his mentor and begins learning from him all over again, this time about life. Oprah Winfrey produced this 88-minute film, and her renowned touchy-feely quality is prominent as Mitch learns to love both Morrie and his own girlfriend. Azaria, better known for... More Info about this DVD Director(s): Mick Jackson DVD Release Date: Released the 01 July 2003 Usually ships in 24 hours
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With this powerful 1992 drama, director-producer George Miller (The Road Warrior) proved that a movie about a disease doesn't have to be a typical disease-of-the-week movie. Based on the real-life case of the Odones family, the story concerns 5-year-old Lorenzo, suffering mightily from an apparently incurable and degenerative brain illness called A.L.D. His parents, an economist (Nick Nolte) and a linguist (Susan Sarandon), refuse to accept the received wisdom that there is no hope, and set about learning biochemistry to pursue a cure on their own. The film becomes an intriguing scientific mystery mixed with a story of pain, grief, and the strain on the two adults. In other words, Lorenzo's Oil is similar to all those medical-mayhem TV flicks but with some key... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Nick Nolte - Susan Sarandon - Peter Ustinov Director(s): George Miller (II) DVD Release Date: Released the 06 April 2004 Usually ships in 24 hours
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